Frog Hall, 1990 section, 40-50 cm depth (Pleistocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Amino acid D/L ratios from molluscan shells give mean values of 0.24, consistent with an age in Oxygen Isotope Stage 9.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, carbonaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. H. Keen, G. R. Coope, R. L. Jones, M. H. Field, H. I. Griffiths, S. G. Lewis, and D. Q. Bowen. 1997. Middle Pleistocene deposits at Frog Hall Pit, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, English Midlands, and their implications for the age of the type Wolstonian. Journal of Quaternary Science 12:183-208 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169397: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Elmidae
Oulimnius tuberculatus Muller 1806 riffle beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Sitona sp. Germar 1817 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydraenidae
Hydraena sp. Kugelann 1794 minute moss beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Stenus sp. Latreille 1796 rove beetle